Lesley, thanks for the welcome and help.
Barbarajane, congrats on all the ribbons. Would love to see a photo.
Butterflyspain,
I would love to get more information on quilting this as you go, if you have a source, please share.
If I join this challenging endeavor,I'll be looking at using a machine appliqué method where you use starch and heat-resistant template, as well as glue to turn the edges under for machine appliqué. I took a class for tis technique last year, but didn't practice it much, it IS time consuming, but with my limited needle skills,I can achieve neater results with it than fusible appliqué, lol. And since this is to be done one block at a time, perhaps I'll have patience for it.
Ok, Ill be getting the book this week and hopefully I won't loose my faith in myself doing this, lol.